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Bug 1802159

Summary: Default login for Fedora core os either undocumented or missing
Product: [Retired] Fedora Documentation Reporter: Hadmut Danisch <hadmut>
Component: install-guideAssignee: Petr Bokoc <pbokoc>
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Description Hadmut Danisch 2020-02-12 13:45:51 UTC 
Description of problem:

I was just giving Fedora Core OS a first try and installed it from the ISO image to the bare metal following the instructions at

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/bare-metal/

Since I didn't have an ignition file yet, I just ran 

sudo coreos-installer install /dev/sda  

with out the ignition file, and this worked. 

After rebooting, the system came up, but I could not login on the console. The Docs do not contain a hint about what username and what password to use. When i mounted the file system on a different linux machine I saw that there is a core use with no password set. Since I'm not familiar with ostree, I wasn't sure whether I was breaking anything if I just changed the password in the /etc/shadow on that disk, and this is probably not the intended way to use the system. 

You end up with having a system that's of no use since you can't login. 

Either the docs should tell how to login after plain install, or coreos-installer should prevent from installing a system with no use and no login. 

regards
Comment 1 Petr Bokoc 2020-06-25 15:20:34 UTC 
Hello, thank you for your report. We consider Bugzilla deprecated for docs issues; I went ahead and opened an issue in the CoreOS docs project on GitHub where it should get more attention: https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-docs/issues/89